President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades has explained to the EU High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini his proposal aiming at returning to Geneva for peace talks, that would create the preconditions for a political settlement. President Anastasiades met with Mogherin on the sidelines of the…

Russia has rejected as “absurd” suggestions that it was obstructing reunification talks but reiterated that efforts to achieve a settlement at all costs was unacceptable. Read full article at CyprusMail.

The UN spokesman in Cyprus hit back at claims in the British tabloid, The Sun on Friday that President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker was drunk at Geneva’s international conference on Cyprus., Read full article at CyprusMail.

Diplomatic sources allegedly support that the international community is looking for a solution formula in Cyprus based on a “loose federation” Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris Postasi newspaper (04.05.17) under the front-page title: “Intermediate formula for the solution with special status in the EU, separate representation in the internal and one and single representation abroad”, invokes…

According to BRT(3.05.2017), UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser for Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide, will be in New York towards the end of this week to update UNSG Antonio Guterres on the latest developments in the peace talks in Cyprus and the way forward, spokesman of the Secretary General Stephan Dujarric has said. He also referred…

A possible decision by American President Donald Trump to cut funding to United Nations peacekeeping missions could jeopardise the United Nations Forces in Cyprus (UNFICYP), Phileleftheros newspaper reported on Monday. Read full article at in-Cyprus.

The Korean peninsula is the last bastion of the Cold War and, together with Cyprus, the only divided countries in the world. Invited to a World Journalist Conference in Seoul and other cities, we received firsthand experience of how South Korea managed to achieve so much in such little time. Read full article at…

HOPES of bringing to justice the murderers of George Low, a British tourist stabbed to death in Ayia Napa last summer, are virtually non-existent, due to the political non-recognition conundrum between the Republic of Cyprus, Turkey, and the Turkish Cypriot administration north. Read full article at CyprusMail.

Under the above title, Turkish daily Hurriyet Daily News (online, 04.04.17) publishes the following commentary by Unal Cevikoz regarding Turkey’s accession process to the EU: “It would be political short-sightedness not to see that a serious decline in Turkey’s relations with Europe is in the making. At this stage, resorting to blame games does…

Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris Postasi (30.03.17) reports that diplomatic circles described as “an important development” the appointment of the UK’s Special Envoy on Cyprus Jonathan Allen, especially in this crucial period of the Cyprus negotiation process. Recalling that the role of the former UK’s Special Envoy on Cyprus Lord David Hannay was very important…